#whodunnits

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones - MacMillan - 1977

#witches #whodunnits #occult #vintage #a morbid taste for bones #morbid #morbid taste #bones #mediaeval #middle ages #macmillan books #ellis peters #1977

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

See How They Run

Loaded with in-jokes, Tom George’s SEE HOW THEY RUN (2022, HBO Max) is great fun though never quite as clever as its creators would like us to think it is. An American film director (Adrien Brody, whose frequent return in flashbacks is most welcome) is murdered and left on the stage of Agatha Christie’s THE MOUSETRAP. Eccentric police inspector Sam Rockwell is assigned to the case with the delightful Saoirse Ronan as his overeager assistant. Suspects include the play’s stars, Sir Richard Attenborough (Harris Dickinson) and Sheila Sim (Pearl Chanda), its producer (Ruth Wilson) and the play’s screen adapter (Dave Oyelowo). The picture has meta elements — Brody’s complaints about formulaic whodunnits describe the film’s plot, and Oyelowo mocks film conventions like flashbacks and titles saying “Three Months Later” in the midst of narrating a flashback that contains just such a title — but they never make it beyond clever. Though George’s direction is serviceable if a bit overwrought (he loves his split screens), the cast keeps the whole thing afloat. The play is set in our current idealized past, so purists and bigots will be upset to see people of color and women in positions of power they wouldn’t have held in 1953. But if that means we get Oyelowo’s delicious turn as a playwright who keeps his “nephew” in his overdecorated flat or Wilson’s steely producer, I’ll gladly grant the production historical license. As escapism, the film is well worth your time, and if you’re a fan of Tom Stoppard (Rockwell’s character is named for him) and/or Agatha Christie, you’ll wallow in the references to their work, though in one case knowing Christie too well might just lead you astray.

#comedies #whodunnits #agatha christie #tom stoppard

[myjetpack]

My latest @guardian books cartoon.

#tom gauld #books #writing #cartoon #romantasy #scifi #whodunnit #music #cookbook #dystopia

[aro-in-danyl]

DP X DC Prompt

Damian, who’s never seen danny before this moment: we’re twins.

Danny, choosing chaos: triplets, actually. I have an identical sister. 

Damian: what.

Bruce, listening in from a roof: Talia hid THREE children from me?!

Talia, on a different roof: Father stole one of my children?! >:(

OR ALTERNATIVELY

Danny: Quadruplets actually. You owe so much child support

Bruce: what-

Dani & Dan: pay up bitch

#danny texts dani and tells her the drama #dani meets the batfam and is all:yes we look identical bc we're triplets #no other reason #yes this does mean danny dani and dan are not white TM #give them melanin you cowards #the alternate one is where Dan gets the therapy he needed #danny dani dan and dami #alternate alternate Amorpho shapeshifts into danny and pretends to be a sibling #He is excited to be part of the quintuplets #amorpho calls himself damy to be consistent #to get around the whole being dead thing amorpho says he was eaten in the womb #he does not say which sibling did it #they play amongus to sus out whodunnit #damian insists this is not a valid method #he is outvoted #dp x dc #dc x dp #dc x dp prompt #dp x dc prompt

[zombiedeers]

CLUE: The Movie AU for Spooky Month !!!

It is exactly what you think it is!!!

An au of a movie from the 80s that's based off of a board game!

You can tell the roles obviously, but I should state that the names Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, Ms White, Mr Green, Ms Peacock and Professor Plum and even Mr Boddy are all aliases!! They still have their real names but in the context of the movie they aren't referred to them as that because of plot reasons !!

Father's label on his head has been changed from "DAD" to "BOSS" because the latter simply makes more sense in the context of the au !!

#spooky month clue au #whodunnit spooked #zombie rambles #zombie's art #whodunnit #spooky month #sr pelo spooky month #spooky month rick #rick hedony #spooky month patty #spooky month bob #bob velseb #spooky month father #spooky month jaune #spooky month frank #spooky month lila #spooky month john #spooky month carmen #spooky month dexter #clue #clue the movie

[thebookworm0001]

Highlights of Glass Onion

1-Daniel Craig’s terrible southern accent

2-Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc playing Among Us in his bathtub again Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim

3-“it’s so dumb”“It’s so dumb it’s brilliant”“No! It’s just dumb”

4-literally the whole movie is about how dumb Elon Musk is. Also Zuckerberg. And whoever the fuck the other billionaire is. But also definitely Elon Musk.

4-Benoit Blanc is so clearly gay in such a casual way I love it

5-Janelle Monáe

6-The very clear messaging of ‘you will never take down a person like this through the legal ways so just beat the shit out of them until something gives’

7- everyone is clearly having the time of their lives making this movie

#glass onion #truly a delight #as good as knives out? #no but still a delight #it is so damn good at understanding the tropes of the genre #and leaning into them enough to make it work before twisting them enough to keep things fresh #and it does it in a different way from knives out #knives out says ‘you know whodunnit - and you want them to get away with it’ then throws that last twist in #glass onion says ‘this is the most fucking transparent plot but you won’t believe that because you want it to be complex and layered’ #and you nod right along because despite the fact that the title tells you precisely how simple this plot is #you still expect layers of onion to be peeled back to reveal something new #it’s freaking amazing #and then a billionaire gets his house blown up because he’s an idiot #also that’s a very nice and controlled fire I’m very glad they’re not all dead

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

Excuse me while I mop my drool off the floor.

#martin freeman #Whodunnit Unrehearsed

[halscafe]

monarchal summit minor spoilers!

call sweetheart alexander hamilton with how they were in the room where it happened 💀

#FOLKS WE GOT A WHODUNNIT ON OUR HANDS #AND THE FACT THAT ITS THE WORD OF THE WEREWOLVES IN A AUDIENCE OF VAMPS (SOME OF WHOM MAY NOT LIKE WEREWOLVES PERIOD) #consider me terrified and heavily intrigued for the future 👀 #redacted asmr #redacted audio #redacted monarchal summit #redacted sweetheart #redactedverse

[elderscrollsconceptart]

"Whodunit"

Art for The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Art by Eilene Cherie

#eilene cherie #the elder scrolls #art #concept art #tes #the elder scrolls legends #dunmer #cyrodiil #murder mystery #whodunnit #whodunit #oblivion

[neo-my-geo]

Looking great, Spy!

#tw blood #tf2 #tf2 spy #neo's funny art tag #french #thumbs up emoji #cw eye contact #crime #law and order sfx #whodunnit #slutty thighs mcdeadspy

[starspangledscrewup]

If gamechanger did a murder mystery episode of ‘who killed Sam?’ It could be the *funniest* shit ever. Because every former player has so much motive.

#I know they did a whodunnit episode already #but this was before Sam psychologically ruined his contestants #dropout #game changer #Sam reich #brennan lee mulligan

[interdimensional-bitch]

i could watch benoit blanc solve mysteries in gay little outfits for one hundred movies

#glass onion #knives out #benoit blanc #janelle monae #whodunnit #murder mystery

[annabelle--cane]

I think the funniest thing the magnus protocol could do would be to give us five smooth-talking vaguely menacing mysterious bureaucrats in the first season and make us place bets on which one is secretly jonah

#lena kelley gwendolyn bouchard and [redacted] played by tim fearon are the obvious bets so far. I want More. #I want it like a whodunnit that the audience knows is happening but absolutely none of the characters do #tmagp #marina marvels at life

[raggedy-spaceman]

We know absolutely nothing abour Phillip but I just know that he’s the Kevin Cozner to Benoit Blanc’s Holt.

#glass onion #benoit blanc #raymond holt #kevin cozner #brooklyn nine nine #knives out #b99 #phillip blanc #this makes so much sense if you think about it #i need a buddy cop whodunnit with holt kevin blanc and phillip thank you very much #mine

[bumblingbabooshka]

I think B'Elanna and Tuvok probably work together a lot in a distant, professional capacity and it's mostly through notes about what will and will not blow the ship up. Constant updates about how not to blow the ship up or otherwise kill everyone aboard which are increasingly and endlessly complicated and if Tuvok weren't Vulcan and B'Elanna weren't built with a mind like a diamond they would both just collapse under the weight of it all and give up but instead they're lowkey kind of enjoying the challenge sometimes. When they aren't collapsing under the weight of it all. They started their messages with B'Elanna being so careful about sounding professional but by year 4 they're not even using honorifics or greetings. They might be employing shorthand. When they get back to the alpha quadrant the admirals are pouring over their notes, maneuvers, quick fixes, and long-term solutions in both horror and fascination. In year two they had to trap an alien slime in the turbolift which is nonsentient and unkillable and it helps the turbolift (which was previously broken beyond repair) run but WILL eat anyone inside that lift if the power coursing through its body reaches a certain level so that particular turbolift has to stay lower-powered and slow. No power can be diverted through that turbolift or anyone who uses it will be eaten. Engineering Win: If we incorporate this alien technology which uses star power instead of solar power which B'Elanna found detailed in an old book during a shore leave thrift sale we can increase the ship's systems' efficiency by over 50%! Security Fail: The star power technology makes people inexplicably think they are a star, their longing for the twinkling void causing them to throw themselves out into space. That's the sort of thing that B'Elanna and Tuvok are dealing with. There's so much that Tuvok brings to B'Elanna like 'this is horrifically dangerous' and B'Elanna replies like 'this is the only way the ship can keep functioning.'

#despite this they are not friends v_v it's hard work but someone's gotta do it (refuse to become friends) #B'Elanna #Tuvok #idk what to tag this as #fake star trek voyager episodes my beloved #I suppose <3 #st voy #voy #Tuvok & B'Elanna have to deal with impossible bullshit all the time HEHEHE #people tease about how Tuvok's the security officer and yet the ship is always in danger but really how is he supposed to protect #the ship from like...dream aliens #Tuvok's tactical notes much seem like the scrawlings of a mad man to a certain extent. Same with B'Elanna's notes reminding her #of what's happening with the ship. She has a map of Voyager that looks like those red-string-whodunnit walls

[vampkomori]

love that penacony is just a whole entire game of cluedo. we even have:

sparkle as miss scarlet

misha as mrs white (the maid/butler)

aventurine as mrs peacock

dr. ratio as prof plum

sunday as mr green (reverend/priest)

acheron as colonel mustard (military fighty..esque)

and lesser known roles i had to look up:

black swan as madame rose (fortune teller)

robin as miss peach (a "southern belle")

firefly as monsieur brunette (con artist posing as someone else)

gallagher as inspector grey (officer=bodyguard)

#sampo and tb arent included bc they werent introduced in penacony #it all lines up too well! its a game!! #it fits the dream theme also. if a players 'character' dies they can no longer play #they ARE dead. but also not really. its a game #which is why i dont think anyone will actually die for real. its a dream a game and if u die u have to be spectator from reality #hsr #honkai star rail #hehe... whodunnit #also i realized ratio was released a bit before. but come on hes literally a plum and probably has 50 phds #ruan mei can be dr. orchid even if shes currently irrelevant. fits as well! i cracked the code